Indonesia’s vice president has resigned, aide says, stoking political uncertainty

JUST IN: Indonesian Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka has resigned, an aide says, stoking political uncertainty and threatening to split a key alliance between President Prabowo Subianto and former President Joko Widodo.

Indonesia's vice president has resigned.

Gibran Rakabuming Raka, just 39 years old, tendered his resignation to President Prabowo Subianto on Wednesday, according to his aide Budi Arie Setiadi. You're looking at him here.

The pressure had been building for weeks. Last month, both the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court ruled that his education documents did not meet election requirements, and lawmakers have been circling ever since.

Gibran is not just any vice president. He is the son of former President Joko Widodo, and his place on the ticket was the glue holding together the alliance between Jokowi and Prabowo, the two most powerful men in Indonesian politics. Prabowo now leads Southeast Asia's largest economy without the partnership that got him elected.

A vice presidency built on a court-cleared technicality has now ended on one.

This is Sara White, reporting for HIT.